The 2024 Prize of Hope Ceremony & Dinner
July 7, 2024 @ 4:00PM — 7:15PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Carlo Theater, Dell'Arte International: 131 H Street Blue Lake, CA 95525 Get Directions
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Honoring Brenda Wong Aoki & Mark Izu of First Voice
As part of a celebration of 50 years of creations, Dell’Arte International presents the 2024 Prize of Hope. This year’s Prize of Hope will honor Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu of San Francisco’s First Voice at the 2024 Baduwa’t Festival.
Dell'Arte has been offering the Prize of Hope with the Danish Institute of Popular Theater since 2008; past recipients include Universes (2018), Cornerstone Theater (2016), Tim Robbins & the Actor's Gang (2008), and many more! This is an event that is truly international and not to be missed.
SCHEDULE
The Prize of Hope Ceremony will occur on July 7, 2024 in the Carlo Theater. The Dell'Arte box office will open at 3:15 for checkin. There will also be an informal gathering before the ceremony at the Logger Bar across the street.
- 3:30pm Carlo opens.
- 4:00pm Prize of Hope Ceremony with Performance by Brenda & Mark
- 6:00pm Dinner & Humboldt Taiko performance in Dell'Arte backyard
- 7:30pm End of Prize of Hope event.
Seating open for ticket holders of The Poor of New York on Dell'Arte outdoor stage.
ABOUT THE RECIPIENTS
Since 1976, Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu have, together and separately, created multi-disciplinary work that has received national and international acclaim. The two prominent Asian-American artists were founding faculty at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford, and their broad vision for this organization had its roots in their experience. First Voice was founded in 1995 to provide an organizational structure for their collaborations, which center on the creation of contemporary American art by working in and adapting non-Western theatrical, musical, and spoken word traditions.
“Brenda was an actress in the very first tour of The Dell’Arte Company with their production of LOON’S RAGE. And then Mark Izu composed and played the music for Dell’Arte’s production of ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS, a collaboration with the Karuk and the Hmong cultures in the telling of creation stories,” notes Producing Artistic Director Emerita Michael Fields. “Their work gives voice to those who are not often heard. And that is an act of Hope that makes them very deserving of the 2024 Prize of Hope.”